Guilty Men
E241306
Guilty Men is a 1940 polemical book, co-authored by Michael Foot under a pseudonym, that fiercely condemned British appeasement policies toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guilty Men canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2180067 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guilty Men Context triple: [Michael Foot, notableWork, Guilty Men]
-
A.
Guilty Conscience
"Guilty Conscience" is a moody, genre-blending song by 070 Shake that explores themes of regret, inner conflict, and emotional turmoil.
-
B.
Murderer of Blue Skies
"Murderer of Blue Skies" is a song by Chris Cornell, featured on his 2015 solo album *Higher Truth*, showcasing his introspective lyrics and acoustic-driven rock style.
-
C.
Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
-
D.
The Desperate Man
The Desperate Man is a famous early self-portrait by French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, known for its intense, wide-eyed expression and dramatic depiction of psychological turmoil.
-
E.
The Other Man
The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guilty Men Target entity description: Guilty Men is a 1940 polemical book, co-authored by Michael Foot under a pseudonym, that fiercely condemned British appeasement policies toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
-
A.
Guilty Conscience
"Guilty Conscience" is a moody, genre-blending song by 070 Shake that explores themes of regret, inner conflict, and emotional turmoil.
-
B.
Murderer of Blue Skies
"Murderer of Blue Skies" is a song by Chris Cornell, featured on his 2015 solo album *Higher Truth*, showcasing his introspective lyrics and acoustic-driven rock style.
-
C.
Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
-
D.
The Desperate Man
The Desperate Man is a famous early self-portrait by French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, known for its intense, wide-eyed expression and dramatic depiction of psychological turmoil.
-
E.
The Other Man
The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
polemical work ⓘ political book ⓘ |
| author |
Frank Owen
ⓘ
Michael Foot ⓘ Peter Howard ⓘ |
| authorCollectivePseudonym | Cato ⓘ |
| coAuthorRole |
Frank Owen was a co-author
ⓘ
Michael Foot was a co-author ⓘ Peter Howard was a co-author ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizes |
British appeasement policy
ⓘ
interwar British political leadership ⓘ policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| criticizesPolitician |
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
ⓘ
surface form:
Lord Halifax
Neville Chamberlain ⓘ Stanley Baldwin ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
polemical literature
ⓘ
political non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
critical of interwar Conservative governments
ⓘ
supportive of a more confrontational stance toward Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| historicalFocus | prelude to the Second World War ⓘ |
| impact | contributed to the post-appeasement political climate in Britain ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
British foreign policy
ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ World War II ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
appeasement ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fierce condemnation of appeasement
ⓘ
influencing British public opinion against appeasement ⓘ |
| politicalOrientation | anti-appeasement ⓘ |
| publicationContext |
published after the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany
ⓘ
published during the Second World War ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| publishedUnderPseudonym | Cato ⓘ |
| publisherType | British publisher ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | 1930s ⓘ |
| title | Guilty Men self-link ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Guilty Men Description of subject: Guilty Men is a 1940 polemical book, co-authored by Michael Foot under a pseudonym, that fiercely condemned British appeasement policies toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Foot